I saw my mother pulling out an old red cow from the cowshed. I don’t know where she got such strength. The cow struggled hard but was still held down by my mother.
"Her second uncle, come here and help." My mother's expression was a little ferocious because of the exertion.
The second uncle hurried over, asked Aunt Zhang for a rope to put around the cow's neck, and then helped my mother tie it to the wooden stake where the donkey was tied.
After doing this, my mother and my second uncle straightened up and let out a sigh of relief.
"This cow is too strong." The second uncle said while smoothing the sparse hair on his head.
"Guizhi, what's going on? What are you doing dragging my cow!" Aunt Zhang didn't dare to step forward and asked while picking up the door frame of the house.
The old red bull was still stamping its hooves.
My mother glared at Aunt Zhang, her tone sounding like a scolding: "You two have done good things, and they have practiced well, and you just cut them off like this?"
"Sister-in-law? What do you practice?" the second uncle asked my mother with a smile.
My mother snorted, turned around and said to Aunt Zhang: "You tell yourself!"
Aunt Zhang shrank from being scolded by my mother, and hesitantly said: "Oh, yesterday, Lao Zhang went to feed the cows, and when he came back to feed the grass, he saw a snake in the haystack, and it was chopped into two halves.
Then we didn't do it on purpose, how could they find us... Wuwuwu." Aunt Zhang cried again as she spoke.
My mother pointed at her nose and said with annoyance: "Why did I come to find you! They will be gone soon. Do you know that they are gone?"
That is the most important step before becoming a dragon! Now that I have been cut in half by you, my cultivation has been greatly reduced, and I don’t know how many more years it will take to survive until I become a dragon. Some of my confidence has been shattered, and I may not be able to survive it in this life!
All things in the world are equal, how can you be nice? You hurt someone and didn’t know how to repent and apologize. You also fed snake meat to the cows. They then used their cultivation to reattach their bodies and come to take revenge on you two!"
"ah!?"
Aunt Zhang sat down on the ground, grinned, howled, and slapped her thigh.
"Damn it! When I saw it yesterday, I felt something was wrong and asked him to throw the snake away quickly, but he ended up feeding the cow! What should I do?"
Aunt Zhang got up again, rushed to my mother's side, grabbed my mother's hand and shook it hard: "Guizhi, saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, you must save us two!"
"Hey." My mother sighed, turned to the irritable old Red Bull and said: "Black Dragon, Black Dragon, everything in this world has its destiny, you don't have to be too persistent, do good rather than evil, this may be the reason for your evil deeds.
What a disaster."
I quietly nudged up to my second uncle from behind my mother and asked in a low voice: "Second uncle, why does my mother call the snake a black dragon?"
My second uncle bent down and asked me with a smile: "Would you rather be called Little Beauty, or Harley Quinn?"
"Of course she's a little beauty, I am." I stuck out my tongue naughtily at my second uncle.
The second uncle rubbed my head again, looked at the old Red Bull who had calmed down slightly, and taught me patiently: "Girl, remember, no matter in heaven, earth or the underworld, everyone likes to hear good things. The saying is, don't hit someone with a smiling face.
Have you learned it?"
"I learned it." In fact, I didn't learn it, because I felt that with my mother's reputation in a radius of dozens of miles, no one would dare to look down on me. Maybe I can marry a city man in the future, and I don't have to make others smile.
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The second uncle probably saw what I was thinking, and sighed leisurely: "You are still young now, you will know when you grow up."
"..." When I grow up, I am also my mother's child!
After some earnest persuasion from my mother, Old Red Bull completely stopped.
Aunt Zhang and I both stared nervously and intently.
Old Red Bull wagged his tail and suddenly sneezed, and then a black thing like an earthworm came out of his left nostril.
My mother grabbed the small section with quick eyes and hands, and pulled it out hard, and a thin black snake more than one meter long appeared in her hand.
It turns out that is the tail of a black snake!
Aunt Zhang covered her mouth and took a breath: "This, this is..."
"Well, this is the black dragon, which can also be called the Everlasting Immortal." Then, my mother asked Aunt Zhang to buy a bundle of paper money, a handful of incense, three eggs, three steamed buns and a butter lamp.
After Aunt Zhang came back dripping with sweat, my mother took us to the north intersection again. She carefully placed the black snake on the ground.
In front of Black Snake were eggs and steamed buns on two plates. Incense and butter lamps were lit and placed in front of the plates. My mother drew a circle on the ground and asked Aunt Zhang to apologize while burning paper money into the circle.
Strange to say, the smoke from the burning paper money swirled down on the black snake. The black snake, which was originally a bit wilting, gradually straightened its upper body.
"This is called money making the devil push the wheels."
I looked up at my second uncle and happened to see his thick, white double chin. I guess my second uncle was one of the few wealthy people in our village.
"I understand, uncle."
The moment the flame of the paper money went out, the black snake shook its tail and quickly crawled into the grass and disappeared.
Aunt Zhang screamed, sat on the ground and gasped heavily. Her big eyes were like light bulbs from crying, and she asked my mother in a thick nasal voice: "Guizhi, is this okay?"
My mother looked at the grass and said, "That is to say, Black Dragon has a broad heart and doesn't care about us mortals. Otherwise, your family will suffer the consequences."
Aunt Zhang was choked and could not speak.
After a while, I heard another rustling sound in the grass, and this time it was completely gone.
My mother pulled Aunt Zhang up and smiled apologetically: "Sister-in-law Zhang, don't be offended. I did it to you just now to show that Chang Xian. She has grievances in her heart. If she can't let her calm down, I'm afraid...
I can’t be kind today.”
Aunt Zhang suddenly realized this and bowed to my mother to thank her.
"Don't be like this, Sister-in-law Zhang. It's important to see Brother Zhang now. You should quickly find a car and go to the hospital in the town to have a look."
"Hey, hey, hey! Okay! I'll go right away!" Aunt Zhang went there without stopping.
It was noon now, and every household was eating and sleeping indoors. There were no people on the streets, which were being scorched by the scorching sun.
There were no outsiders now, so my mother turned around and kicked my butt!
"I asked you not to interfere. Why are you so disobedient?"
I rubbed my sore buttocks and jumped three feet high, raising my head in dissatisfaction but not daring to bite my tongue.
My mother pointed at me and said angrily: "Aren't you disobedient? Walk these two miles back by yourself!"
"Hey Mom!" I hurriedly went to pull off my mother's clothes. I couldn't even walk one mile, let alone two miles!
But my mother sat directly on the back seat of my second uncle’s car and told my second uncle: “Let’s go.”
The second uncle turned back and raised his eyebrows at me: "Did you see that both adults and children must be responsible for their own actions? You should also learn a lesson today, girl."